Champion Maximum Security has been retired from racing and is now available for inspection at Ashford Stud where he will stand for 2021.
A winner in his only start as a juvenile by 9 3/4 lengths for owner/breeders Gary and Mary West, Maximum Security was first past the post in all of his four Grade 1 starts as a sophomore, winning the Haskell, the Cigar Mile and the Florida Derby and was arguably unlucky to have lost the Kentucky Derby despite having run out an easy winner.
As a 4-year-old, Maximum Security won the lucrative Saudi Cup, defeating eight individual Grade 1 winners, before transferring to Bob Baffert for whom he won the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap and the G1 Pacific Classic Stakes.
The best son of Street Cry's Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner New Year's Day, Maximum Security is a three-parts brother to triple Grade 1 winner Flat Out so he has the pedigree to match his race record and looks.
“Maximum Security was an exceptional racehorse and I have no doubt that he will prove very popular with breeders once they see him,” said Ashford's director of sales Charlie O'Connor. “He's an extremely impressive-looking individual.”
Maximum Security's fee has been set at $20,000.
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